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      Half the shit he’s done has required congressional authority.

      Congress is full of fascist shit lickers and is fully complicit in all of these violations to the constitution. They could have impeached him weeks ago for setting up DOGE or enacting tariffs without congressional approval, instead they sit back and act like they can do nothing.

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    “Who is the first buyer?” one of the reporters asked.

    “Me,” Trump quipped.

    “The second?” the reporter pushed on.

    “I don’t know, but I’m the first buyer. It’ll be out in … less than two weeks. Pretty exciting, right?” the president asked.

    First of all, why would he be the first buyer of an express residency card when he’s already a citizen? Fucking moron.

    Second, “it’s happening in two weeks” is Trumpspeak for “it’s literally never going to happen.”

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        Don’t give him so much credit. Everything he does is credited as an intentional distraction from whatever it is that he just did.

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          Wonder how the big players in the troubled teen industry donated. I’m sure RFK Jr’s department will be quick to investigate and regulate teen torture facilities.

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          Yep. There’s this strategy called “pump and dump.” It’s often used by the wealthy to inflate stock prices before cratering them to buy at discount.

          Idiots like you see line go up for a while, and think:

          • I’ll buy at a discount as it falls

          Instead of noticing the “pump” part of the scheme, also visible in your image.

          Unless you want to point to some economic windfall happening between 2022 and 24 that explains all that growth, it is very likely from downsizing, buybacks, and off market darkpool price manipulation. (Which now happens regularly these days with every blue chip stock around 5pm).

          Historically, Tariffs lead to a recession in 1830 (15% Tariffs), a Depression in 1930 (20% Tariffs), and now with a 40% plus Tariffs on basically everything, we are likely to see the complete disembowlment of the US Dollar and all the market dominance we built with it.

          You better get your completely misplaced premature celebration out now, because you are going to be eating crow the rest of this year, and far into the future. There’s no amount of bullshit Trump spin that will bring our markets back. We are unquestionably fucked.

          I will gladly check back here in 8 months to provide an updated chart, seeing as you will certainly be too embarrassed to do so.

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            Idiots like you

            Here I am posting a joke, and you gotta be an ass and not even understand what I posted. We’re literally saying the same thing.

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                Maybe not. But it’s a literal picture of the stock market melting down.

                Either way, if it’s not clear, maybe people should err on the side of not being a dick to a stranger on the internet.

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                  It’s a picture of the stock market melting down…

                  …from a time frame of 2021 and on.

                  Which implies the growth from that time until now is somewhat meaningful in comparison to the dip that specific time frame does its best to minimize.

                  Which to me, seems intentional. Kinda like you’re being a dick. Which is why I responded like one in turn.

                  If that was all an accident:

                  Then apologies for calling you an idiot and listing in detail all the ways I agree with you about the market melting.

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      “24h” was equivalent to “maybe during this term”, so 2 weeks could mean within the next 2 decades

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    This is our actual present reality, people. Resist the urge to look away, it will still be there.

    Holy fuck.

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    Idk why dems don’t discredit this as “Desperately importing wealthy foreign elites”.

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      It doesn’t work.

      The right would celebrate that it was ‘triggering teh libs’.

      You can’t beat someone who is only playing to get a rise out of you.

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        Kamala got fox news to talk about her policies by advocating anti price gouging legislation. Shame she abandoned that policy so quickly

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        Sure you can. When Trump breaks them and makes them poor, they’ll have to stop trolling and get serious. A ton of them are starting to wise up and pressure their congressional representatives to do something.

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          Nope.

          You vastly underestimate their hate.

          When they’re broken, he’ll let them loose on the browns who get all the blame.

          Exactly the same as happened during the first great depression.

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            Sure but they’ll stop trying to be silly and get more serious (albeit hateful).

            As Chris Rock said, if a homeless guy has a funny sign, he hasn’t been homeless for long.

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              The analogy is apt, we are the guy with a job walking by in a suit, they are coming down from meth, desperate for their next fix, and they’re pulling out their knife.

              Last time they went on a redneck rampage we lost 600k good Americans.

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    Doesn’t make sense. This should obviously be an NFT. Did the intern they tasked with this not know how to setup a new memecoin?

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    Why would anyone with that much money want to come here permanently, and get the IRS all up in their business? The US is the only large country that taxes its citizens on their worldwide income (edit: regardless of residency status)

    Yes, I know Republicans are always interested in reducing taxes on the rich, but right now these hypothetical rich people who want to come here have zero tax liability. All that $5m does is subject them to intrusive questions about where they are making their money every year when they file taxes.

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      Good news for rich people, this article says they won’t be taxed like a citizen

      Unlike American citizens, gold card holders will not have to pay taxes to the U.S. government on their overseas income.

      Their source is CNBC

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        Shit, that is a good deal, then. And probably exceeds Trump’s authority in what the can offer, but when has that stopped him before?

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      The US is the only large country that taxes its citizens on their worldwide income.

      That’s untrue. As a Canadian, I know we do, and I believe we’re far from alone. I don’t know why people keep perpetuating this myth.

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          Sure, that’s completely true but unrelated to what you said in your original comment. I quote:

          Why would anyone with that much money want to come here permanently

          You were not talking about non-resident citizens, so stop moving the goalposts.

          Plus, the US has one of the lowest tax rates of any of those “large countries” you talked about. So unless a US citizen resided in a country without a tax treaty with the US (there’s not many of them), they’re almost certainly being charged enough tax in their resident country that they pay $0 to the IRS on non-USA income.

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            I was talking about non-residents, that’s why I edited the comment. Resident non-citizens presumably have jobs here, and are already paying tax.

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    Every time stuff like this happens … it doesn’t change how people feel about Turnip

    Every time stuff like this happens … I think about how stupid the American people are. They have a clown for a leader, running the country like a circus for sale and they put up with it every time.